Terrorism

SAN’A, Yemen—Corruption, an inefficient security force and an intoxicating plant that keeps most men in Yemen high for up to six hours a day all stand in the way of America’s battle against al-Qaida’s Yemen […] […]

DUBLIN—Northern Ireland police seized a dissident IRA bomb packed into a beer keg Saturday and were inspecting a potential car bomb parked outside Belfast International Airport, the latest efforts to undermine peace in the British […] […]

WASHINGTON—Yemeni authorities arrested a woman Saturday and searched for other suspects linked to —Yemeni authorities arrested a woman Saturday and searched for other suspects linked to Al Qaeda’s Persian Gulf faction’s Persian Gulf faction in […] […]

Plot to mail bombs to US synagogues Attack bears the hallmarks of al-Qaeda US and Yemen vow to hunt down terrorists AN INTERNATIONAL hunt has begun for the terrorists who tried to mail two bombs from Yemen […] […]

FAR-right groups gathered in Amsterdam today to protest against what they claim is the “growing Islamisation” of Europe. Hundreds of people are expected to attend the demonstration, with members of the English Defence League (EDL) […] […]

Authorities have thwarted multiple terror attacks aimed at the United States, seizing two explosive packages from cargo jets. The packages were sent from Yemen and addressed to Chicago-area synagogues. The plot triggered worldwide fears that […] […]

THE sophistication of the apparent attempt to deliver explosive-laden parcels to the US casts renewed attention on al-Qa’ida’s Yemen affiliate. The al-Qa’ida branch has drawn Yemen’s government, with US backing, into an increasingly bloody ground […] […]

The Canadian Jewish Congress has issued a security alert to groups across the country after learning of two suspicious packages bound for Jewish organizations in the U.S. Chief executive Bernie Farber says the warning has […] […]

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba—Testimony ended Friday in the sentencing hearing for a former teenage al-Qaida fighter with the defendant asking a jury to consider that U.S. interrogators allegedly suggested he could be raped in […] […]

DALLAS—A Jordanian man sentenced to 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper is appealing the punishment. Hosam Smadi faced up to 30 years as part of his […] […]